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spirit_n	adoption_n	cry_v	father_n	9,732	5	5.0154	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45329	The beauty of holiness, or, A description of the excellency, amiablenes, comfort, and content which is to be found in wayes of purity and holinesse where you have that glorious attribute of Gods holinesse exactly setforth : together with the absolute necessity of our resembling him therein ... / by Tho. Hall.	Hall, Thomas, 1610-1665.	1655 (1655)	Wing H426A; ESTC R28056	111,380	240

in qualibet re Bulling most beautifull and successfull in its season Davids blessed man brings forth fructum suum in tempore suo his fruit in due season and therefore all that he doth prospers Psal. 1. 3. Whilst then the day of thy youth the day of health and the day of grace lasteth whilst God stands knocking at the door of thy heart by the motions of his Spirit speedily entertain him embrace his motions suffer thy selfe to be led by his Spirit in waies of obedience resolve with David that God shall be thy God and that thou wilt seek him early Psal. 63. 1. Let it be your first work to seek his Kingdom else if you delay and Diaboli vox est Da peccato quod praesens est Deo quod futurū peccato floremaetatis Deo reliquias Daven put off God from day to day your hearts will be hardened your sin increased Gods wrath provoked and Satan encouraged Learn wisdome then of the men of the world the Mariner observes his wind and tide the Lawyer his Term the Chapman his market the Husband man his seasons yea the Stork and the Crane and the Swallow know the time of their coming and the laborious Bee loseth no fair seasons Consider that time Nullus dum per caelum licuit otio perit dies Pliny it self is short but the seasons of grace are shorter and if you lose them you lose all This ruined Jerusalem because she knew not the day of her visitation See Madens Serm. on Luk. 19. p. 148 c. Gros Inducements to Christ. p. 25. 26. Luke 19. 44. Yea many that seek after heaven shall miss of it because they seek too late Luke 13. 24 God hath allotted to every man that lives in the bosō of his Church a certain time for repentance and he that neglects that time comes not in to Christ then can never be saved and therefore be sure ever to second the Spirits motions with obedience lest if the Lord call and you will not hear the time come when you shall cry and shall not be heard Prov. 1 24. c. 2. Seek it earnestly with all thy heart and with all thy might with the highest intention of affection they are only wrastling Jacobs that become prevailing Israels Importunity will do much it made an unjust Judge to do justice no man ever sought God with his whole heart but he found him Deut. 4. 29. Ier. 29. 13. 2 Chron. 15. 15. God hath made many gracious promises that he will sanctifie and cleanse us urge them in thy prayers beseech him to remember the word which he hath spoken to his servants wherein he hath caused us to trust Ezek. 36. 25 26 27. Zach. 14. 20 21. Obad 1. 7. 1 Cor. 1. 30. Go unto Christ in him is a fulnesse of holinesse to answer for our unholinesse Christ is the Magazine and Store-house of all grace in him is not only a fulnesse of Plenitudo abundantiae Plenitudo redundantiae Abundance but a fulnesse of Redundance an overflowing fulnesse for me and thee and for all that come unto him 3. Seek it constantly never give over Non cepisse sed perfeciss●… virtutis est but wait still in due time we shall reap if we faint not do not limit the holy One of Israel to thy time consider how long thou didst make him wait on thee before thou heardst him and then shouldst thou die in this waiting condition yet thou art blessed Deo confisi nunquam ●…onfvsi Isa 30. 18. Hold on thy suit take no deniall the comfort thou wilt meet with in the end will abundatly recompence all thy waiting and though hope deferred may make thy heart sick yet when it comes it will be as a Tree of Life Prov. 13. 12. II. If ever you would be holy you must take heed of offending and grieving Gods holy Spirit by your sins for sanctification is the most proper work of the Spirit and therefore he is called the holy Spirit for as the Father Elects and the Son Redeems so the holy Ghost doth most properly sanctifie 1 Pet. 1. 2. Titus 3. 4 5. 'T is the Spirit that must inlighten enliven strengthen quicken convince us of our spirituall See more Sibbs fount s●…aled p 112 c. nakednesse blindnesse poverty and misery it must enable us to all Duties and make all Ordinances effectuall and therefore as you love the In amore sempe●… cau●… t●…la nemo enim melius diligit quàm qui maxim●… veretur offen●… d●…re Salv. Spirit of God and tender your own salvation quench not the motions of Gods Spirit in your souls when it would convince you of sin and humble you do not drink nor drive away those pangs of the New-birth but obey its motions surrender up all the keyes of thy soul unto him let him rule in thee and over thee and suffer thy self to be led by it and it will assure thee of thy Adoption III. Attend upon the Preaching See M Ant. Burg. Sers 83 of the holy word of God it is the ordinary means by which the Spirit of sanctification is conveyed into our souls Act. 10. 44. Whilst Peter was preaching the holy Ghost fell on those that heard the Word Gods Spirit breaths not in an Ale-house or in a Play-house but in the ordinances they are the vehiculum Spiritus the Spirits chariot God will be found in his own way and means and therefore we should sit in the winds way and though for the present we finde not that comfort we expect yet let us wait Lex sanctifi●…ationem promovet q. ●…ominem ad peccati agni●…ionem adducit Wendel I. 1. c. 26. Harsnet on Rep. p. 65. to 124. still the lame man that lay long at the Pool of Bethesda at last was cured Attend then to the whole Word of God to the Law as well as to the Gospel let its terrours humble thee and out thee of thy self that so the Gospel may comfort thee For Gods usuall method is to bring men to heaven by The Preaching of the Law not only preparatively but being blessed by God instrumentally works the conversion of men the gates of hell First to bring men to mount Sinai and then to mount Sion first to mount Ebal the mount of cursing and then to mount Gerizim the mount of blessing first the Spirit of bondage to convince men of sinne and make them fear and then the Spirit of adoption to cry Abba Father By the M. Ant. Burgess Vindie Legis p. 195. 261. assistance of the Spirit the Word will be a sword to kill our corruptions and a glass to discover our selves unto our selves for though morall truths may adorn the soul yet it is only Divine truth that purifies it Psal. 119. 9. John 17. 17. Nor is it all hearing that brings sanctification Quicquid recipitur id ad modū recipientis recipitur Si vas est putidū ci que